July - September 2011

July - September 2011:

In mid-July I met back with my GI for a followup. I had mentioned to her that I wasn't feeling any better and I was starting to have a more difficult time swallowing foods and pills along with all the pain and swelling with eating. She said she wanted to do another endoscopy...which I agreed with. She also ran some blood tests to test for allergens and the foods that came back positive with this test were:

Apple
Barley
Bell Pepper/Paprika
Cabbage
Corn
Grape
Milk
Oat
Orange
Peanut
Rice
Rye
Tomato
Wheat

I went in for my endoscopy toward the end of July and my stomach and duodendum were normal. My esophagus also looked normal with the exception of a few white plaques. I got my pathology results back a week later and she found: Eosinophilic Esophagitis. I had NOT been mis-diagnosed. As crappy of a diagnosis as this is, it was a relief that I did have an answer. At this point she told me to remove wheat, dairy, soy, eggs, fish, shellfish, peanuts, treenuts, apple cabbage, corn and tomato from my diet and she would scope me again in 6 weeks.

After 6 weeks, I went in for my next endoscopy. With this scope, everything looked normal except I had some mild inflammation in my stomach so they took some biopsies to test for H-pylori, which came back negative. I received my pathology results a week later which still showed EoE. I was advised to meet with her to discuss other options....